Steven Schoonjans
List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven Schoonjans is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2950-189X | E‑ISSN 2950‑1881
Title
The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality
Edited by Steven Schoonjans
Published with support from the University Foundation / de Universitaire Stichting van België / la Fondation Universitiaire de Belgique
read moreSpecial issue of Nota Bene 2:1 (2025) v, 225 pp.
2026 Modal particles with adverb properties in German and Dutch Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 307–329 | Chapter
Modal particles typically grammaticalize from adverbs in German and Dutch, and some modal particles have not lost all of their adverb properties yet. Presenting an exploratory and mainly qualitative analysis, this paper addresses two particular features of adverbs that can still be found with a… read more
2025 The quality of quantity, the quantity of quality: Introduction The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality, Schoonjans, Steven (ed.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2025 Frequency issues in multimodal Construction Grammar revisited The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality, Schoonjans, Steven (ed.), pp. 200–225 | Article
After more than a decade of constructionist research on multimodal phenomena, it is still not clear if and how para- and non-verbal layers should be integrated in Construction Grammar. One major issue is the frequency of co-occurrence of the different modes of expression: even though it is… read more
2025 Modal particles in workplace coaching in German: An exploratory study of coaches’ use Linguistics in the Netherlands 2025, Doreleijers, Kristel, Remco Knooihuizen and Eva van Lier (eds.), pp. 373–388 | Article
Coaching is a fast-growing learning and development format. While its overall effectiveness is empirically established in psychological research, there is little linguistic research on how particular discursive practices are used in coaching interactions to co-construct such effectiveness. This… read more
2024 Language criticism in Austrian daily newspapers: Analysis of the argumentative topoi in letters to the editor Evolution and Revolution in Language and Linguistics, Berns, Janine, Marie Steffens and Esther Baiwir (eds.), pp. 14–39 | Article
Letters to the editors of daily newspapers are often used to criticize linguistic phenomena. This paper presents an analysis of the language criticism in letters to the editors of three Austrian daily newspapers (Kronen Zeitung, Kleine Zeitung, and Die Presse), focusing on the argumentative… read more
2024 Introducing Nota Bene Evolution and Revolution in Language and Linguistics, Berns, Janine, Marie Steffens and Esther Baiwir (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Editorial
2019 Modal particle meanings: New insights from gesture research Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2, pp. 303–330 | Article
One of the challenges of modal particle research is the search for appropriate ways to describe the meanings these particles convey. As these meanings are subtle and situated at the abstract and non-propositional level of intersubjective meaning making, the function of the particles is… read more
2013 Modal particles: Problems in defining a category Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description, Degand, Liesbeth, Bert Cornillie and Paola Pietrandrea (eds.), pp. 133–162 | Chapter
2012 Richard Waltereit, Abtönung. Zur Pragmatik und historischen Semantik von Modalpartikeln und ihren funktionalen Äquivalenten in romanischen Sprachen Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 153–157 | Review
2010 Review of Waltereit (2006): Abtönung. Zur Pragmatik und historischen Semantik von Modalpartikeln und ihren funktionalen Äquivalenten in romanischen Sprachen Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 282–287 | Review